This month, scratch that, this past week alone I have now lost 3 paintings due to things falling off Old Woody. This is making a case for a proper drying rack to be bought (and for Old Woody to hit the dumpster.) First the dog bumped it and caused Mountains to fall off the easel, and now my husband hit it walking past it causing my two plein air paintings (yes, even the pine tree tops *sniffle*) from Saturday to fall to their hairy deaths. T_T (Luckily, the Scarf painting was also with them and also fell but magically landed paint side up and had only a few stray dog hairs to pluck from it, so it is intact!)
I've moved Old Woody back against the wall best I can, so there might not be such a risk of bumping now. Just, the place it is at is the only place it can really be because otherwise the dog will be walking through Woody's legs 3-4 times a day. I forsee more paintings being lost that way.
Luckily Andrew gets paid (with commissions!) this Thursday, and its a strange pay period month where 3 paychecks come in one month. So I think I'll be going shopping for some kind of rack to dry the paintings on. And hubby, having caused the death of two paintings, can't really complain at this point. It's an investment I need to make (along with a tube of raw umber, alzirin crimson, and ultramarine blue).
Something like this or this would be great, its certainly cost-effective (rather than $1000+ racks that are also available out there, though I admit the pricey cabinet style rack would be wonderful to prevent passing pets from furring the edges.) It wouldn't hold tiny paintings on those wide wires, but if I put down a few sheets on poster board I have plenty of room to set paintings to dry.
I'll just have to check Colours, Paint Spot, and DeSerres next weekend and price the racks available at each chain. I feel pretty confident I should be able to find a drying rack for under two hundred dollars. It just needs to be no wider than 2 feet to fit into the space I have for it.
Until then, Old Woody is pressed further back against the wall, and I continue to be nervous about the future of Scarf until she's dry...
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I need something as well. I messed up part of my new painting trying to get a cat hair out of it, and had to rework that section. It looks ok, but I think it looked better before.
I saw a post on WC (I think) of a homemade rack someone made out of metal shelving, pegboard and dowels. My SO says he can make it, so I shall see if I can convince him to actually do it.
If not, the ones you linked above look good too. I shall be watching to see what you come up with. :)
Hey Allison, Sorry to hear of the passing of a couple of you PA pieces.... ya know I was using plastic stacking bread trays as a drying rack for a long time, and before that I taped boxes like cereal boxes together with the tops cut off and they make pretty good small piece drying racks. plus you can paint them. if you are thinking of spending decent $ on a dry rack then you might wanna check out some of the wet panel carriers out there that way you can just get home and open the box to let air in and be allset carrying the paintings around when you are outside oh yeah if you are gonna get alizarin crimson see if you can find "permanent" cause the real stuff is not lightfast. ok done rambling... :)
check out pochade.co.uk they do a simple drying rack/rails for
£9.95 inc wordwide delivery
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